> Does anyone know anything about Gloranthan alphabets?
> We recently had the characters discover an ancient scroll written in =
> Sartarite. While there was a Sartarite-speaking character in the party =
he
> was illiterate. However our literate Pavisite suggested that he simply
read =
> the scroll out loud phonetically and then the Sartarite could work out
what =
> it meant.
<snip>
> In the RW there are far fewer scripting systems than languages (in Euro=
pe
we =
> only have Roman, Greek and Cyrillic but dozens of countries, many of
which =
> have more than one language) and so the players trick could have worked=
. =
Many of the languages that use the Roman alphabet don't use it phonetically, and those that do don't all use the -same- phonetic scheme.= =
Many have extra marks added to the letters.
Russian is written phonetically in Cyrillic but that's only because there=
has been a fairly recent spelling reform - the alphabet was phonetic when=
St Cyril invented it but the language had drifted over the centuries. Ev=
en
so, you can't always tell how to pronounce a Russian word by sounding the=
letters because they vary according to where the stress is.
So, if you want to stop the player's trick you can do so even if you have=
Pavic and Sartarite using the same script.
Andrew
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